Information about camping, hiking, fishing. etc. in the Great Smokies National Park.
It’s not your everyday crime. Bears broke into a Gatlinburg woman’s car. Kathy Gafford sent the WATE 6 On Your Side newsroom pictures of two bears climbing inside her car while she was working at a cabin along Ski Line Drive. “The baby was sitting in the passenger seat. The mama was sitting in that
Trout anglers can experience good-to-great fishing now through November in North Carolina’s high country, according to a Bryson City guide. “Fishing’s really good right now,” said Gene Shuler, owner of Fly Fishing the Smokies Guide Service (828-488-7665). “The Little Sallie (stonefly) hatch is excellent in Great Smoky Mountains National Park streams.” >> Read Complete
It was March 18, 1976 when a park ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park responded to a report of what appeared to be an abandoned automobile. The station wagon in question was found in a secluded parking lot in the Elkmont section of the Smokies. Upon further investigation the car was traced to
Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers remind visitors that graffiti not only detracts from the natural beauty of the park, but can also permanently damage irreplaceable resources. Park resources including one of the best collections of log buildings in the eastern United States, backcountry hiking shelters, live trees, stone walls, bridges, and tunnels have all
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is preparing for an influx of new Appalachian Trail hikers after the movie “A Walk in the Woods” is released Sept. 2. The comedy adventure starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte as old friends who decide to hike the 2,190-mile trail is based on the book “A Walk in the
A 23-year old hiker is in stable condition after injuring himself while hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Friday afternoon. Rangers responded to a call reporting that a man was suffering from a possible broken ankle on the Miry Ridge Trail near the Appalachian Trail. A Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter was dispatched to
A 7-year-old Kentucky girl visiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park suffered injuries after falling 30 feet from the top of Cataract Falls, according to a National Park Service spokesman. The girl, whose name was unavailable, climbed to the top of the falls, not far from park headquarters at the Sugarlands Visitors Center, about 11:45
The Great Smoky Mountain National Park Service said rangers and staffers from the Tremont Institute were able to save a man’s life using an automatic external defibrillator and by performing CPR. Rangers said a 64-year-old man suffered from some sort of cardiac event in the Spruce Flat Falls area Sunday afternoon. The man was revived
In 1915, after a heated argument with his father, a 12-year-old boy ran away from his home in Blount County, determined to reach his grandparents who lived on the other side of the Smoky Mountains. Following an old wagon road that roughly traced the route of today’s U.S. Highway 441 through the park, the boy
The rescue of a hiker stranded overnight on Alum Cave ended with a helicopter and began when two Knoxville hikers heard her cries for help. David Roy, 32, and Mat Merten 36, were hiking Saturday evening on the Alum Cave Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park when they stopped at the bluffs to
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